Marriage & Family Therapist in Los Angeles

Marriage & Family Therapy and Coaching Services in Los Angeles

Rebecca Sperber is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who offers a wide range of professional services designed to support individuals, couples, and families in navigating communication challenges, career transitions, recovery, and advocacy.

“Talk It Out” Communication Therapy Program for Couples and Families

Administer “Talk It Out” Assessment
60-minute session to finalize results of Talk It Out assessment
30-minute follow-up conversation to produce a written communication product

The assessment questions are designed to uncover the client’s feelings about the situation, as well as understand the person they want to confront and identify the issues to be discussed and resolved. In addition, the sessions can be conducted online or in person. Accordingly, the Marriage & Family Therapist will respond to the client’s questionnaire with a detailed interpretation of the answers and ask questions to promote a comprehensive exchange of ideas and options for the upcoming difficult conversation. As a result, the therapist will provide written materials to help the client initiate and successfully communicate their feelings, wants, needs, and boundaries.

Career & Job Coaching – 3–5 Sessions

Assessing skills, interests, and values
Education exploration
Career change options
Résumé writing

The client will discuss issues that are crucial to the job search and career change. In this process, establishing clarity on whether to obtain more training in their field or explore a complete departure from their current job is essential. Additionally, interview skills training will be a part of the program. In particular, crucial topics in career counselling include values clarification, interests, and skills. Moreover, personality, likes, and dislikes must also be explored and applied to the process. Therefore, self-tests will be given to the client to obtain the information needed to establish clarity and build the plan to pursue a job, career, or to transition to a new career.

Addiction Recovery & Self-Esteem

Administer self-esteem assessment
Behavioral/Cognitive training for self-esteem maintenance
Integrating AA program with the self-esteem program

The goal in this process is to educate participants about addiction, co-dependency, and the effects of growing up in an alcoholic home. In general, these issues affect the development and maintenance of self-esteem. For this reason, skills for building self-esteem will be taught, as well as learning about what experiences created a damaged self-perception. Indeed, self-esteem is crucial to staying sober and recovering from the trauma that caused low self-esteem to develop. In other words, knowing the “why and how” negative self-esteem develops serves as a pathway to the right specific interventions for everyone. Accordingly, the therapist will administer self-esteem assessment instruments to determine which areas of self-esteem the client is struggling with. Subsequently, goals will be set to identify what behaviors and thinking styles improve self-esteem. Ultimately, learning how and why negative self-esteem decreases is a crucial part of a successful recovery program.

Media, Speaking & Podcast Guesting

Relationships – Dating, Marriage, and Workplace
Communication skill-building
Autism
Addictions

All of the programs outlined here can be translated into short or long lectures or conversations for a wide range of audiences. For example, the therapist will present real-life, relatable scenarios to create user-friendly information that applies to viewers’ lives. In addition, Rebecca can work from scripts provided by the producers or the talent on podcasts, television, or radio, as well as provide full content for a program. Notably, she has experience with Google Hangouts and appearing in YouTube videos. Furthermore, she has also been a guest speaker at school districts and conventions.

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Autism Advocacy & Family Support

Navigating educational and medical systems
Community access disputes
Choosing the right interventions for your child or adult child
The Miller Method: A Cognitive-Behavioural Systems Approach to treating autism

Advocating for and raising an autistic child is a challenging task, especially for people who have no experience with mental health or teaching professions. In fact, Rebecca is the mother of a now 31-year-old son with significant autism and speaks from personal experience and her professional training. In this situation, learning how to navigate medical, educational, and legal roadblocks successfully is part of the autism journey. Moreover, we will discuss how to connect with your child or adult child by understanding both their personalities, strengths, limits, and potential. In addition, the components of the Miller Method to treat autism will be offered, as well as Rebecca’s personal experience using the method with her son and the training she received with Dr. Arnold Miller.

Blog Writer & Ghostwriter Topics Include:

Psychology
Counseling
Relationships
Autism
Political Commentary

Rebecca co-wrote the book The Ten Foolish Dating Mistakes That Men and Women Make as well as authored dozens of articles on relationships, family issues, autism, and addiction. Currently, she has a blog on WordPress, Therapy Room. However, even the most prolific, talented writers get writer’s block or need an objective eye on their content. Therefore, the process of collaborating with a writer to produce a blog, script, or article is a fulfilling professional experience. Not only is Rebecca a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, but also credentialed to counsel K–12 students. Additionally, she has written a political blog since 2019 and continues to produce content regularly. To put it another way, she has written over 1,000 posts on this blog.